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Oral History Interview with Al Jowdy, September 21, 2008 transcript

Oral History Interview with Al Jowdy, September 21, 2008

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Al Jowdy. Jowdy enlisted in the Navy in July 1942 at the age of 15, with his parents’ consent. His first assignment was pulling bodies out of sunken ships in Pearl Harbor. At Guadalcanal, his ship was torpedoed. Due to the presence of enemy subs, he could not be rescued initially and spent two weeks floating in a raft. Then he joined a rescue effort to aid the USS Wasp (CV-7), only to be torpedoed again, spending another four days in the water. Jowdy was then assigned to the USS Salt Lake City (CA-25), patrolling the Bering Sea and participating in the Battle of the Komandorski Islands as a second loader on a 40-millimeter. After witnessing the Marianas Turkey Shoot and also seeing MacArthur film his famous return, Jowdy participated in the bombardment of Iwo Jima, amidst kamikazes and suicide boats. After the war, he survived a typhoon and served occupation duty in Japan, later transporting troops as part of the demobilization effort before being discharged in January 1946.
Date: September 21, 2008
Creator: Jowdy, Al
Object Type: Sound
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Al Jowdy, September 21, 2008 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Al Jowdy, September 21, 2008

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Al Jowdy. Jowdy enlisted in the Navy in July 1942 at the age of 15, with his parents’ consent. His first assignment was pulling bodies out of sunken ships in Pearl Harbor. At Guadalcanal, his ship was torpedoed. Due to the presence of enemy subs, he could not be rescued initially and spent two weeks floating in a raft. Then he joined a rescue effort to aid the USS Wasp (CV-7), only to be torpedoed again, spending another four days in the water. Jowdy was then assigned to the USS Salt Lake City (CA-25), patrolling the Bering Sea and participating in the Battle of the Komandorski Islands as a second loader on a 40-millimeter. After witnessing the Marianas Turkey Shoot and also seeing MacArthur film his famous return, Jowdy participated in the bombardment of Iwo Jima, amidst kamikazes and suicide boats. After the war, he survived a typhoon and served occupation duty in Japan, later transporting troops as part of the demobilization effort before being discharged in January 1946.
Date: September 21, 2008
Creator: Jowdy, Al
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
[News Script: Plane Found] (open access)

[News Script: Plane Found]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story of the wreckage of a missing jet cargo plane which was found by search parties on a mountain inside near Cold Bay, Alaska.
Date: September 9, 1973, 10:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Aircraft Down] (open access)

[News Script: Aircraft Down]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story of a World Airways DC-8 who has leased to the Air Force is missing and presumed down near Cold Bay, Alaska.
Date: September 8, 1973, 10:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Energy Crisis] (open access)

[News Script: Energy Crisis]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story of president Nixon who met with principal energy advisers to discuss ways to ease the nation's energy problems.
Date: September 8, 1973, 10:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Energy Plan] (open access)

[News Script: Energy Plan]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story saying that administration which has become concerned that Middle Eastern nations which could use oil as a club to alter U.S. policy toward Israel.
Date: September 8, 1973, 6:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Meir] (open access)

[News Script: Meir]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about RCA chairman Robert W. Sarnoff who said in Anchorage Alaska that Alaska communications system, which RCA acquired two years ago is prepared to provide a communications system which could flash an instant warning in case of any malfunction in the proposed Alaska pipeline.
Date: September 13, 1973, 12:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Environment of Amchitka Island, Alaska (open access)

The Environment of Amchitka Island, Alaska

Report on ecological investigations sponsored by U.S. Atomic Energy Commission.
Date: September 1977
Creator: Merritt, Melvin Leroy & Fuller, Rueben Glen
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library

The Orion

Photograph of "The Orion," near Point Barrow, AK, explorer resting upside down, the bodies of Wiley Post and Will Rogers had just been removed and a tow rope fastened to the tie-down fitting, August 15, 1935.
Date: September 15, 1935
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
[News Script: Alaska] (open access)

[News Script: Alaska]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story.
Date: September 26, 1971, 10:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Plane crash] (open access)

[News Script: Plane crash]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story.
Date: September 4, 1971, 10:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Alaska Eskimos] (open access)

[News Script: Alaska Eskimos]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story.
Date: September 15, 1971, 10:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Plane] (open access)

[News Script: Plane]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story.
Date: September 6, 1971, 12:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Alaska air crash] (open access)

[News Script: Alaska air crash]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story.
Date: September 7, 1971, 12:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Alaska crash] (open access)

[News Script: Alaska crash]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story.
Date: September 5, 1971, 10:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Hirohito/ Da Nang] (open access)

[News Script: Hirohito/ Da Nang]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story.
Date: September 27, 1971, 6:30 a.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Stowaway cat] (open access)

[News Script: Stowaway cat]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story.
Date: September 15, 1971, 6:30 a.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Ship Close] (open access)

[News Script: Ship Close]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story.
Date: September 15, 1969, 10:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Alaskan oil bid] (open access)

[News Script: Alaskan oil bid]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story.
Date: September 10, 1969, 6:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Associated Press] (open access)

[News Script: Associated Press]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story.
Date: 1969-09-10T24:00:00
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Smith Explored Alaska] (open access)

[News Script: Smith Explored Alaska]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story.
Date: September 22, 1969, 8:25 a.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
Radioactivity at the Copper Creek Copper Lode Prospect, Eagle District, East-Central Alaska (open access)

Radioactivity at the Copper Creek Copper Lode Prospect, Eagle District, East-Central Alaska

Report discussing the investigation of radioactivity at the Copper Creek related to copper mineralization in sedimentary rocks. The radioactivity probably originated from uranium relating to bornite and malachite.
Date: September 1952
Creator: Wedow, Helmuth & Tolbert, Gene Edward
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Energy From the North: Selected References on Oil and Gas in Alaska and Canada, 1969-1972 (open access)

Energy From the North: Selected References on Oil and Gas in Alaska and Canada, 1969-1972

This report provides a bibliography of resources related to oil and gas reserves in Alaska and Canada that were published between 1969 and 1972.
Date: September 1972
Creator: Siehl, George H.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
National Coastal Condition Report IV (open access)

National Coastal Condition Report IV

This report assesses the condition of the nation's estuaries and costal embayments, including the coastal waters of the conterminous United States, Southeastern Alaska, Hawaii, American Samoa, Guam, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
Date: September 2012
Creator: United States. Environmental Protection Agency. Office of Research and Development.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library